61.   Presidential aides were said to have found Mueller adequately qualified, but wanted a wider search for better-known candidates.

62.   Privately, presidential aides said, Clinton has sought to draw distinctions between conduct in service of his administration, and prior acts.

63.   Presidential aides agreed to establish a committee that would continue to review the construction program to monitor whether spending levels are sufficient.

64.   Presidential aides do not see the strapping, idiosyncratic attorney general, who relishes her outsider image, as one of their own.

65.   Presidential aides have long denied any wrongdoing in either the Willey or the travel office matter.

66.   Presidential aides initially said the July attack was only a minor ailment, but Yeltsin himself later called it a heart attack.

67.   Presidential aides said the telephone call to the newspaper was his decision.

68.   Presidential aides say the television campaign serves several purposes at once.

69.   Presidential aides swiftly denied the charge.

70.   Privately, presidential aides said they were stunned by the revelations and made no effort to dispute them.